Comrade Shlichter

Dear comrade! I am terribly angry with you and we are all angry with you. You cannot delay and vacillate at such a moment. You cannot desert. You are needed as minister of agriculture and must come here at once. We are furious with you for the delay.

Until we meet soon.

Your Lenin

in the journal

Written not earlier than 7 (20) November —

not later than 10 (23) November 1917

Sent to Moscow

First published in 1922

"Proletarskaya Revolutsiya" No. 5

Printed from the manuscript